{"data":{"id":"us-me/19-a-m.r.s.-1735","jurisdiction":"us-me","citation":"19-A M.R.S. §1735","heading":"International application of chapter","body":"1.  Foreign country treated as a state.  A court of this State shall treat a foreign country as if it were a state of the United States for the purpose of applying this subchapter and subchapter II.\n2.  Recognition and enforcement of foreign determination.  Except as otherwise provided in subsection 3, a child custody determination made in a foreign country under factual circumstances in substantial conformity with the jurisdictional standards of this chapter must be recognized and enforced under subchapter III.\n3.  Application not required.  A court of this State need not apply this chapter if the child custody law of a foreign country violates fundamental principles of human rights.","path":["TITLE 19-A: DOMESTIC RELATIONS","PART 3: PARENTS AND CHILDREN","CHAPTER 58: UNIFORM CHILD CUSTODY JURISDICTION AND ENFORCEMENT ACT","SUBCHAPTER 1: GENERAL PROVISIONS"],"source_url":"https://legislature.maine.gov/statutes/19-A/title19-Asec1735.html","current_through":"October 1, 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-04T15:12:29Z","sha256":"e936457d3287bf5d3fb64cb7ec99554fe45004beec7b2d9418fe25dc6e795541","source_id":"us-me","stale":false,"prev":"us-me/19-a-m.r.s.-1734","next":"us-me/19-a-m.r.s.-1736"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}